we spent quite a lot of time over the summer promoting the r.f.i. and going directly to associations that represented industry types that we thought might be public oriented according to our definition, which means invites the public in. this included associations related to arts and cultural uses, recreational uses, entertainment, education. we received 52 responses when the r.f.i. closed on october 31st. just to give you a brief flavor of what types of uses -- what types of respondents we received, respondents were able to self identify as tenant type, master tenants meant that the entity thought that they could take on a full pier redevelopment. a lot of space, a lot of cost. they could also respond as a smaller tenant, meaning they were capable of leasing a smaller part of the facility, but had a concept that would really benefit from being on the embarcadero and could benefit the embarcadero. they could also self identify as either, meaning they thought they could take on the whole pier redevelopment, or be part of another program. we're potenti

and that's when we issue the r.f.i. we will notify you. >> president breslin: it says october 18-june 20, 2019. >> that's correct. it will go through the rates and benefits process and it will play into what happens during rates and benefits. so we need to get that started asap. >> president breslin: so everyone will be noticed when this starts? >> yes, the second that the r.f.i. is issues, you will be notified in writing. >> president breslin: okay. any questions? >> i would just make a comment and it's contains in our terms of reference and i highlight that to member of the governor's committee and this board because we have to update the terms of reference this year, but that -- what is in place now is wholly sufficient to cover our conduct as board. >> thank you, commissioner, yes. as we did from several years ago, of course, matters of rates and benefits are handled as a committee of the whole now, so it does apply to all members of the board. and we do, on behalf of the finance division and contracts division, very

where to start in the navigation process is going to be a trick. >> we have narrowed the focus for the r.f.i. so we will only look at certain categories. the navigation coordination, the skeletal -- help me out here, guys. >> expert opinion. >> expert opinion. that's where we're starting. >> ok. >> some that are familiar and some new to us. yeah, we share your concern and part of what we're learning and i think clearly from the presentation weren't the only one that is trying to design or understand how to go about evaluating these tools. that's why it's an r.f.i. so we can learn about it and i know that the plans are all doing some more work so we want to be sure that we are talking to each other as we move along and see where this synergy is and consensus around some of these products. >> one of the things i was hoping to learn about in new orleans because the fact is that we have a potent data base now. they've been working on it for quite a while as a health system. we can use that to drive some of the prioritization, muscle skeletal came up in part through that data base and in addition

the private sector, right? many good signal cans come from government employment and what you can do is put out an r.f.p. or r.f.i. to develop something and think of a good way to screen that or explore and choose the best technology providers without having and develop it yourself. >> very quickly on that, there's some interesting lessons to be learned from what the city of munich is doing. i actually advised the bavarian finance ministry, and the city of munich is basically doing just this a.i. and blockchain and it's a private-public partnership. they brought in some of the biggest companies and the family offices and they brought in obviously government infrastructure in the city of munich itself. they're looking at companies that are building blockchain solutions that can genuinely affect their citizenry and citizenry globally and they are backing them with the infrastructure that the city can bring. they're backing them with funds that the public-private partnership has brought. and it's been really effective. i was in munich last month, and i got to see about five companies that are doing really meaningful